Browsing: attempting to balance useablity with privacy

I am of the opinion that most of what we do on a computer occurs in our browser
these days, anything from banking, shopping, connecting, reading and learning
all occurs within this one box.

My browser

Firefox is my daily browser. I like
their open-source commitment and I’ve never had any major issues, I’m sure I’ll
switch without any guilt if that changes. I’m also a big fan of Firefox Focus
for mobile browsing. A browser that has caught my attention is
Qutebrowser, its characteristic feature is the vim
like key-bindings, maybe in the future I’ll use it a little more.

My add-ons

Attempting to balance privacy with usability is hard, websites break without
much effort if you use tracking and add blocking tools or the wrong combination
of them. However I have found the following to not ruin my experience at all.
I have three main add-ons that I advocate everyone to use without thinking about
it:

Along with this I set my browser to never remember passwords or autofill forms
(I use a password manager for this), to only accept cookies from sites
I visited, and I also enable Tracking Prevention while Do Not Track Request is
on. Firefox can be further customized by entering the about:config,
I recommend reading trough Privacy Tools
before configuring settings here, some settings make the browsing experience
a little less convenient or break websites. Of course you can use
TOR if you’re really paranoid, but this
post is probably not for you if you reach that level.